Spokane, Our Early History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spokane, Our Early History write by Tony Bamonte. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Spokane, Our Early History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
African Americans in Spokane
African Americans in Spokane - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Americans in Spokane write by Jerrelene Williamson. This book was released on 2010-01-01. African Americans in Spokane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1888, black men were recruited from the southern states to come to Roslyn, Washington, to work in the mines. What they had not known until their arrival was that they were there to break the strike against the coal company. Upon their arrival on the Northern Pacific Coal Company train, they were met with much violence. When the strike was finally settled, everyone-black and white-went to work. After the mines closed, the blacks migrated across the Pacific Northwest. Arcadia's African Americans in Spokane is about those black families who arrived in Spokane, Washington, in 1899. This collection of historic images reveals the story of their survival, culture, churches, and significance in the Spokane community throughout the decades that followed; this is the story of the journey that began once their final destination was reached, in Spokane.
Seven Frontier Women and the Founding of Spokane Falls
Seven Frontier Women and the Founding of Spokane Falls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seven Frontier Women and the Founding of Spokane Falls write by Barbara F. Cochran. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Seven Frontier Women and the Founding of Spokane Falls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Black Spokane
Black Spokane - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Spokane write by Dwayne A. Mack. This book was released on 2014-08-20. Black Spokane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chase’s win failed to capture the attention of historians—as had the century-long evolution of the black community in Spokane. In Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest, Dwayne A. Mack corrects this oversight—and recovers a crucial chapter in the history of race relations and civil rights in America. As early as the 1880s, Spokane was a destination for black settlers escaping the racial oppression in the South—settlers who over the following decades built an infrastructure of churches, businesses, and social organizations to serve the black community. Drawing on oral histories, interviews, newspapers, and a rich array of other primary sources, Mack sets the stage for the years following World War II in the Inland Northwest, when an influx of black veterans would bring about a new era of racial issues. His book traces the earliest challenges faced by the NAACP and a small but sympathetic white population as Spokane became a significant part of the national civil rights struggle. International superstars such as Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong and Hazel Scott figure in this story, along with charismatic local preachers, entrepreneurs, and lawyers who stepped forward as civic leaders. These individuals’ contributions, and the black community’s encounters with racism, offer a view of the complexity of race relations in a city and a region not recognized historically as centers of racial strife. But in matters of race—from the first migration of black settlers to Spokane, through the politics of the Cold War and the civil rights movement, to the successes of the 1970s and ’80s—Mack shows that Spokane has a story to tell, one that this book at long last incorporates into the larger history of twentieth-century America.
Bold Spirit
Bold Spirit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bold Spirit write by Linda Lawrence Hunt. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Bold Spirit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb. Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public imagination. But their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women's achievement was blanketed in silence until, nearly a century later, Linda Lawrence Hunt encountered their extraordinary story.
